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Shakespeare's auditory worlds : hearing and staging practices, then and now / edited by Laury Magnus and Walter W. Cannon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Shakespeare and the stage (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
- Shakespeare and the stage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Communication in literature.
- Listening in literature.
- Speech in literature.
- Sound in literature.
- Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery--History.
- Theaters.
- Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.
- History.
- Theater.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver ; Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Shakespeare's Auditory Worlds examines special listening situations like overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides. It explores complex relationships between sound and sight, dialogue and blocking, non-English languages, and nonverbal relationships inherent in noise, sounds, and music, ending with a discussion with ASC Actors"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "Report me and my cause aright": Hearing the Language of Exhortation in Hamlet and King Lear / Walter W. Cannon / Laury Magnus
- ch. 2 Sound and Sight, Sound vs. Sight in Hamlet / David Bevington
- ch. 3 Hearing and Interfering: Solving Puzzles in Theater Productions of Measure for Measure / Laury Magnus
- ch. 4 Silence, Mishearing, and Indirection in Much Ado / Gayle Gaskill
- ch. 5 Writing Letters, Hearing Voices: Epistolary Error in Twelfth Night / Caroline Latta
- ch. 6 Staging "Skimble-skamble Stuff": 1 Henry IV and the Welsh Voice / Walter W. Cannon
- ch. 7 Soundscape for an Offstage Beheading: Shakespeare's Revision of 2 Henry VI 4.1 / Megan Lloyd / Elizabeth Brown
- ch. 8 "Fearful and confused cries": Birdsong, Sympathy, and the Fear of Sound in Titus Andronicus / Steven Urkowitz
- ch. 9 "They say it will penetrate": Music as Aural Violation in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Cymbeline / Clio Doyle
- ch. 10 Hearing Cues in Shakespeare: Instrumental Music and Sound Effects in the Later Plays / R.W. Jones
- ch. 11 Reconstructing Audience at Shakespeare's Globe / Jennifer Lillian Wood
- Voices from the Blackfriars Stage: A Virtual Roundtable Discussion from Actors at the American Shakespeare Center / Leslie C. Dunn
- Hearing on the Blackfriars Stage: A Coda / Patrick Midgley / James Keegan / John Harrell / Allison Glenzer / Benjamin Curris / Sarah Fallon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shakespeare's auditory worlds
- ISBN:
- 9781683932000
- 1683932005
- OCLC:
- 1164123937
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